‎postcolonialism on film, a list of films by Chris 🍉 • Letterboxd

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postcolonialism on film

films grappling directly with colonialism, neocolonialism, imperialism, etc

recommendations welcome -- the first half of the list (up to and including Touki Bouki) i have seen and heartily endorse, the second half i have yet to see but have been recommended

Note: the places some of these films pertain to (ie Palestine in It Must Be Heaven and other films) are not "post"-colonial, but the word postcolonialism refers to the field of study rather than the literal state of having been decolonized/liberated

Note 2: I am excluding the work of Ciro Guerra after learning about the accusations made against him by multiple women.

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  • Oh, Sun
  • The Night
  • I Am Cuba
  • Bamako
  • Neptune Frost
  • Flee
  • The White Silk Dress
  • Atlantics
  • Blood of the Condor
  • Divine Intervention
  • Vitalina Varela
  • Bacurau
  • In Search of Famine
  • The Battle of Algiers
  • Turumba
  • Bye Bye Tiberias
  • Passion
  • Saint Omer
  • Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro
  • Life on Earth
  • Black Girl
  • Nostalgia for the Countryside
  • Tale of the Three Jewels
  • To My Father
  • Perfumed Nightmare
  • After the Curfew
  • Scenes of the Occupation from Gaza
  • Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
  • Lion of the Desert
  • Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory
  • Azor
  • Black Is… Black Ain’t
  • It Must Be Heaven
  • I Dream in Another Language
  • Fresh Kill
  • Surname Viêt Given Name Nam
  • Illusions
  • The Spook Who Sat by the Door
  • Gaza Ghetto: Portrait of a Palestinian Family
  • In Search of Palestine: Edward Said's Return Home
  • Sambizanga
  • Death by Hanging
  • Zama
  • The Time That Remains
  • Black God, White Devil
  • Hyenas
  • When the Tenth Month Comes
  • Jenin, Jenin
  • Farha
  • The Silent Protest: Jerusalem 1929
  • Pirated!
  • Sankofa
  • Limbo
  • La Llorona
  • Cane Fire
  • Malcolm X
  • Daughters of the Dust
  • Pacifiction
  • Chronicle of a Disappearance
  • The Silenced
  • Araya
  • Gook
  • A Tale of Love
  • Bushman
  • From Hollywood to Hanoi
  • Children of Shatila
  • Sweet Country
  • Welcome II the Terrordome
  • Frontiers of Dreams and Fears
  • Big in Vietnam
  • Concerning Violence
  • Le Franc
  • The Teacher
  • Horse Money
  • Watermelon Man
  • Missing
  • And Still I Rise
  • Song Without a Name
  • Your Father Was Born 100 Years Old, and So Was the Nakba
  • Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask
  • Bestia
  • Touki Bouki
  • Earth
  • Teza
  • Bush Mama
  • Our Time Will Come
  • High Ground
  • True History of the Kelly Gang
  • Meek's Cutoff
  • Xala
  • Days of Glory
  • Afrique 50
  • To Be Twenty in the Aures
  • Once Were Warriors
  • Lumumba
  • Viceroy's House
  • The Cloud-Capped Star
  • Komal Gandhar
  • Subarnarekha
  • This Earth of Mankind